Paul Georges Dieulafoy

Paul Georges Dieulafoy (born November 18, 1839 in Toulouse , † August 16, 1911 in Paris ) was a French surgeon and pathologist .

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Paul Georges Dieulafoy studied at the Paris Sorbonne and was there in 1869 with a thesis on typhoid ( De la mort dans subite since fièvre typhoid ) PhD . In the same year he developed an apparatus for aspiration of exudates ("Dieulafoy apparatus"), which was mainly used to remove pleural effusions from the lungs . Marcel Proust describes this device in the third volume of his novel “ In Search of Lost Time ” (1920/21); In this novel, Proust also deals with Dieulafoy himself.

In 1886 Dieulafoy received a professorship in pathology at the Sorbonne and worked, among other things, at the Paris Hôtel-Dieu . A special form of gastric ulcer is named after him, the so-called Dieulafoy ulcus , as well as the symptoms of an acute abdomen in hemorrhagic pancreatitis ( Dieulafoy pancreatic crisis ). He described the symptom triad of hyperesthesia (hypersensitivity) of the skin, immune tension and muscular contraction at the McBurney point in acute appendicitis ( Dieulafoy triad ).

Works (selection)

• De l'aspiration pneumatique sous-coutanée. Méthode de diagnostic et de traitement , Paris 1870 (English translation London 1870)
• Du diagnostic et du traitement des kystes hydratiques et des abscès du foie par aspiration , Paris 1872
• Traité de l'aspiration des liquides morbides , Paris London 1873
• Manuel de pathologie internal , last 11th edition, Paris 1898
• Clinique médical de l'hôtel-Dieu de Paris , 4 volumes Paris (Masson et Cie) 1896 to 1899
• Exulceratio simplex: Leçons 1-3. In: G. Dieulafoy (ed.): Clinique medicale de l'Hotel Dieu de Paris . Paris 1898, pp. 1-38

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• Julius Leopold Pagel (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin Vienna 1901, p. 394

Web links

• Paul-Georges Dieulafoy (Portraits de Médecins)